1. While their mothers hunt for food walrus pups rest on sea ice. Now as ice melts, walrus pups are being stranded!
2. Grass has started to grow in Antarctica in areas that were covered by ice sheets and glaciers previously. Warmer temperatures are allowing grass to survive through winter for the first time!
3. In the Swiss alps, a rock twice as big as the Empire State Building collapsed on the canyon floor, nearly 700 feet below. The reason? Melting glaciers!
4. In 2002, a chunk of ice in Antarctica, larger than the state of Rhode Island, weakened by warm winds, collapsed into the sea!
5. Up to 72% of bird species in Australia and more than a third in Europe could go extinct due to global warming!
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